Imagine a carpenter
Teaching a fisherman to fish
Why, that would be like Aladdin
Granting the genie a wish.
How could a lawyer
Teach a doctor medicine?
Or, how would an elephant
Teach a human to sing?
By way of a vote
In a General Elections
Professionals are advised
By politicians.
Selected to a Cabinet
By the sitting PM,
Their suddenly acquired expertise
Cause many a problem.
So, imagine a carpenter
Teaching fishermen to fish,
In plain Barbadian parlance
We would say “yuh wish”.
“He gaw be dreaming”
Or “he out in the sun too long”
Cause he definitely behaving
Like he is a circus clown.
What if I could identify
This “circus clown” for you,
Would you swallow your pride
And back down?
Well, it’s a historic fact
Most of you know about,
Some fishermen went out fishing
And no fish came out.
They must’ve been hiding
Cause they caught not one,
Maybe they fished so extensively
That all were gone.
A carpenter turned up
And told them what to do
But it did not measure up
To what they knew.
But to prove him wrong
They follow his command
Then they had to call out to others
To give them a hand.
The nets almost broke
With the weight of the catch,
And then the fishermen discovered
None was his match.
It was Jesus, the Christ
That created the fish
So, he did not have to close eyes
Then make a wish.
Much more than that
They became fishers of men,
It was the carpenter of Nazareth
That taught all of them.
More than a carpenter
More than a fisherman,
Jesus is the ever-living Word,
Aka, God’s begotten Son.
Stewart Russell © February 27, 2025
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